OPTICAL GAIN ANISOTROPY IN SERPENTINE SUPERLATTICE NANOWIRE-ARRAY LASERS

被引:14
作者
HU, SY
MILLER, MS
YOUNG, DB
YI, JC
LEONARD, D
GOSSARD, AC
PETROFF, PM
COLDREN, LA
DAGLI, N
机构
[1] Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
关键词
D O I
10.1063/1.110629
中图分类号
O59 [应用物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
We report optical gain measurement from a serpentine superlattice nanowire-array laser sample, grown by molecular beam epitaxy on a 2-degrees-off (100)GaAs vicinal substrate. Gain spectra, obtained from in-plane ridge-waveguide lasers with stripes either parallel or perpendicular to the nanowire arrays at 1.4 K, showed that the optical gain for the TM mode became greater than that of the TE mode when the optical cavity was placed along the nanowire direction. This provides strong evidence that the lateral quantum confinement in the serpentine superlattice is stronger than the vertical quantum confinement.
引用
收藏
页码:2015 / 2017
页数:3
相关论文
共 14 条
  • [1] Aspes D. E., 1986, J APPL PHYS, V60, P754
  • [2] STEP-FLOW GROWTH ON STRAINED SURFACES - (AL,GA)SB TILTED SUPERLATTICES
    CHALMERS, SA
    KROEMER, H
    GOSSARD, AC
    [J]. APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 1990, 57 (17) : 1751 - 1753
  • [3] CHALMERS SA, 1992, APPL PHYS LETT, V60, P60
  • [4] MOLECULAR-BEAM EPITAXY GROWTH OF TILTED GAAS ALAS SUPERLATTICES BY DEPOSITION OF FRACTIONAL MONOLAYERS ON VICINAL (001) SUBSTRATES
    GAINES, JM
    PETROFF, PM
    KROEMER, H
    SIMES, RJ
    GEELS, RS
    ENGLISH, JH
    [J]. JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY B, 1988, 6 (04): : 1378 - 1381
  • [5] CW DEGRADATION AT 300 DEGREES K OF GAAS DOUBLE-HETEROSTRUCTURE JUNCTION LASERS .2. ELECTRONIC GAIN
    HAKKI, BW
    PAOLI, TL
    [J]. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, 1973, 44 (09) : 4113 - 4119
  • [6] RIDGE FORMATION FOR ALGAAS GRINSCH LASERS BY CL2 REACTIVE ION ETCHING
    JOST, M
    BONA, GL
    BUCHMANN, P
    SASSO, G
    VETTIGER, P
    WEBB, D
    [J]. IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, 1990, 2 (10) : 697 - 698
  • [7] STRUCTURE OF SERPENTINE SUPERLATTICE QUANTUM-WIRE ARRAYS DETERMINED BY TRANSMISSION ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY
    KRISHNAMURTHY, M
    MILLER, MS
    PETROFF, PM
    [J]. APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 1992, 61 (25) : 2990 - 2992
  • [8] THEORY OF LUMINESCENCE POLARIZATION ANISOTROPY IN QUANTUM WIRES
    MCINTYRE, CR
    SHAM, LJ
    [J]. PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 1992, 45 (16): : 9443 - 9446
  • [9] SERPENTINE SUPERLATTICE QUANTUM-WIRE ARRAYS OF (AL,GA)AS GROWN ON VICINAL GAAS SUBSTRATES
    MILLER, MS
    WEMAN, H
    PRYOR, CE
    KRISHNAMURTHY, M
    PETROFF, PM
    KROEMER, H
    MERZ, JL
    [J]. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 1992, 68 (23) : 3464 - 3467
  • [10] SERPENTINE SUPERLATTICE - CONCEPT AND 1ST RESULTS
    MILLER, MS
    PRYOR, CE
    WEMAN, H
    SAMOSKA, LA
    KROEMER, H
    PETROFF, PM
    [J]. JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH, 1991, 111 (1-4) : 323 - 327